A.O.L. Kindersley

A.O.L Kindersley
Born (1869-04-07)7 April 1869
Cape Town, Cape Colony
Died 19 June 1955(1955-06-19) (aged 86)
Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch Highland Light Infantry
Rank Lieutenant-Colonel
Battles/wars Second Boer War
First World War
Awards Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Other work Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire

Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Ogilvie Lyttelton Kindersley CMG DL (7 April 1869 - 19 June 1955) was a British soldier and diplomat.[1][2]

Biography

Kindersley was the eldest son of Captain H. W. S. Kindersley, of the 29th and 99th Regiments, of Tranmere, Lymington. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy.

Entering the British Army, he served with the Highland Light Infantry in Niger Coast Protectorate from 1893-1896, including the Brass River Expedition of 1895. He served during the Second Boer War as a transport officer, and received the honorary rank of major on 12 April 1902.[3] Following the end of the war, he worked as a colonial administrator in South Africa. He was Honorary attaché to the British Embassy in Tokyo from 1911-1913. He was recalled to military service in 1914 for the First World War, at Salonika Campaign from 1916–19 (thrice mentioned in dispatches, awarded the Ordre de l’Etoile noire). He commanded the 1st Garr. Batt. of the Seaforth Highlanders and the 11th (Service) Batt. Cameronians. He was appointed CMG in 1919.

He was a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire and County President of the Isle of Wight Boy Scouts Association. He resided at Hamstead Grange, near Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.

Family

In 1908 he married Edith daughter of Thomas Craven, JP, of Kirklington Hall, Notts, sometime High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire. They had two sons and a daughter; Claude Richard Henry Kindersley (1911-1993), and Alistair Thomas James Kindersley (died 1941 on active service aged 26).[4] His first wife died in 1936. In 1937 he remarried to the Hon. Emily Seely, eldest daughter of J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone.

References

  1. ↑ The Times, Tuesday, Jun 21, 1955; pg. 13; Issue 53252; col B Lieutenant-Colonel A. O. L. Kindersley
  2. ↑ ‘KINDERSLEY, Lieut-Col Archibald Ogilvie Lyttelton’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 27 Dec 2013
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27424. p. 2423. 11 April 1902.
  4. ↑ http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2974663/KINDERSLEY,%20ALISTAIR%20THOMAS%20JAMES
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